Uploading your AS9102 FAIR to Net-Inspect

1. Create an AS9102 project

2. Balloon your part drawing

3. Populate Form 1 from a Bill of Materials

4. Populate Form 2 from a Specifications List

5. Import CMM data to Form 3

6. Publish to Net-Inspect

In order to upload your First Article Inspection Report to Net-Inspect, you will need a subscription to Net-Inspect and your login information.

Open an existing InspectionXpert project or create a new project and open your PDF part drawing. 

After opening your part drawing in InspectionXpert, balloon your drawing. InspectionXpert will balloon the characteristic while extracting the data into the table. To learn more about how to balloon your first part drawing with InspectionXpert, visit the Getting Started page or watch a full-length training. 

Open your Bill of Materials in InspectionXpert and use the OCR (optical character recognition) to quickly extract all the data into the table. This will be included in your AS9102 report. 

Once the data is extracted, assign the columns. 

If your data comes in another format, there are other options for capturing the data. You can select individual columns or rows. 

The Specifications can be captured in the same way as the Bill of Materials. Open the Specifications tab in InspectionXpert and use the OCR (optical character recognition) to quickly extract all the data into the table.

Once the data is captured, you can assign the columns. 

Note: If you don't use a CMM for measuring First Articles, or if you use a combination of CMM and hand tools, you can type your measurement results directly into InspectionXpert, which will upload to Net-Inspect. Or if you're only using hand-tools, you can publish to Net-Inspect without any measurement data and type the results directly into Net-Inspect. 

Click "Add File" in CMMXpert, and select the template for your CMM. Then select your CMM data file, and your CMM data will load in InspectionXpert.

Your CMM programmer does not need to have access to InspectionXpert. You will just need access to the report produced by the CMM.

When programming the measurement routine in the CMM, put the balloon number inside the brackets. Where this information goes will vary depending on the CMM program you use. 

Once your CMM data is in InspectionXpert, click "Auto-Assign" to match by item number. Now your measurement results are shown in InspectionXpert. If you need to create a multi-piece FAI, you can import multiple CMM reports. 

We have over 40 CMM templates available, but if you don't see yours in InspectionXpert, our team can also create custom templates for your CMM.

From the File tab go to Publish, then choose Net-Inspect. 

You'll then be prompted to log in to Net-Inspect. Please note, you will need an active subscription to Net-Inspect in order to view, publish, and access your First Article in Net-Inspect.

Once InspectionXpert is done uploading, you'll be able to find all three forms of your AS9102 First Article Inspection Report in Net-Inspect. The part number, name, and revision level will all be automatically populated from InspectionXpert.

In Form 3, the reference location from the grid, characteristic number, balloon number, and characteristic designator and requirements will all be populated from InspectionXpert.